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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter II (search)
ept a few officers who were awaiting the arrival of their regiment. I also was ordered to remain until I got off my brevet and was appointed full second in the 1st Artillery. It had been a yellow-fever summer, and the cottages on Sullivan's Island were even more fully occupied than usual, mostly by families of planters from the rice plantations of South Carolina. Hospitality was unbounded, and of the most charming character. Nothing I have experienced at home or in the great capitals of Europe has surpassed or dimmed the memory of that first introduction to Southern society. In December, 1853, the order came announcing my appointment as second lieutenant, 1st Artillery, and directing me to join Battery D at Fort Capron, Indian River, Florida. A steamer took me to Palatka, stopping a short time at Jacksonville, which was then little more than a landing on the St. John's River. After a week's delay at Palatka, another little mail-steamer carried me and a few other passengers up
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter III (search)
and make the commander of a great army. From that day forward there was no concealment of the opposition of the Blairs to Fremont. I had another occasion at that time to learn something important as to Fremont's character. He had ordered me to convert the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteer Infantry into an artillery regiment. I had organized eight batteries and used all the field-guns I could get. There remained in the arsenal a battery of new rifled guns which Fremont had purchased in Europe. I applied to him personally for those guns, telling him I had a well-disciplined company of officers and men ready to man them. He gave me the order without hesitation, but when I went to the arsenal I found an order there countermanding the order he had given me. I returned to headquarters, and easily obtained a renewal of the order to issue the guns to me. Determining to get ahead this time, I took the quickest conveyance to the arsenal, but only to find that the telegraph had got ahead
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XV (search)
ercourse with him, and, so far as I can recollect, did not see him until after June 1, 1868, when I entered the War Department. During the intervening time—more than three years—my attention had been absorbed by important duties, including a mission to France in defense of the then violated Monroe doctrine, and command in Virginia during a part of the period of reconstruction. I had not even seen the official reports of the campaign in Tennessee, they having been made public while I was in Europe. Some time in 1868-9 a staff officer in the War Department brought to my notice the indorsement made by General Thomas on my report of the battle of Franklin, and of the preceding operations from the time when, by his order, I assumed command of the army in the field, as follows: headquarters, Department of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864. Respectfully forwarded to the adjutant-general of the army, cordially recommending the gallantry and skill of Major-Gen
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XVIII (search)
ant successes, may be able to determine Sherman's rank among the commanders of past, present, and future ages. Sufficient is not yet known in this country of the credit due any one individual for the success achieved in the recent campaigns in Europe to furnish the means of just comparison between the European and American commanders of this generation. And even between Grant and Sherman there are so few points of resemblance in military character or methods, that they must be judged by contr old ground. I felt greatly complimented when Halleck, on his return from Corinth to St. Louis, en route to Washington to take command of the army, gave me a full explanation of his siege of Corinth, including his application of the standard European tactics of a former generation, with its rule of 10,000 men to the mile in line and regular approaches. I was many years younger than Halleck, Thomas, Sherman, Grant, and the other chief commanders, and hence had much more to learn than they.
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XX (search)
But from the moment when the Union of the States became reassured, European interference in the political affairs of the American republic bec and unofficially, I was to be understood by the public as visiting Europe. A copy of this letter, inclosed in one from the State Department,milar letters were sent to several other United States ministers in Europe. But time passed until November 4, and thus more than two months elapsed before the Secretary of State was ready for me to start for Europe. Mr. Seward then gave me a confidential letter, dated November 4, 1 States, Mexican, and French securities in the financial markets of Europe. It was also understood that no little anxiety was felt at the Fre, in which he said: The object for which you were detailed to visit Europe having been sufficiently accomplished, there is considered to be nodition of the Franco-Mexican question at the time of my return from Europe gave no further occasion for my offices in either of the ways which
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXI (search)
Chapter XXI Reconstruction in Virginia the State legislature advised to adopt the Fourteenth Amendment congressional reconstruction as a result of the refusal the manner in which the acts of Congress were executed no resort to trial by military commission the obnoxious Constitution framed by the State Convention how its worst feature was nullified appointed Secretary of War. in August, 1866, after my return from Europe, I was assigned to command the Department of the Potomac, which included the State of Virginia, then governed in part by the Freedmen's Bureau and in part by the provisional government which had been organized at Alexandria while the war was still in progress. The State had yet to obtain from Congress a recognition of its government, which recognition was understood to depend upon the ratification by the State legislature of the then pending Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This subject was very fully discussed betwee
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
ect General Terry's friendly attitude a Muddle of New commands waiting orders, and a visit to Europe again in command in the West the establishment of Fort Sheridan at Chicago. in the centenniy. This was one of the subjects of correspondence between General Sherman and me while I was in Europe in 1881-2. But it was finally agreed by all concerned that it would be best to favor the unifortion of President Garfield, the Division of the Gulf was broken up, and I was permitted to visit Europe, as I had requested in the preceding November, until the President should be pleased to assign mders of the President. You may take action accordingly. W. T. Sherman, General. My stay in Europe—from May, 1881, to May, 1882— was marked by only one incident of special military interest. Undnderstanding expressed in my correspondence with General Sherman of May 3, 1881, I returned from Europe at the end of a year, and reported for duty. But in the meantime President Garfield had been as
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
aca, 141; foreboding of death, 141 Eugenie, Empress, S. presented to, 392 Europe, the modern wars of, 357; S.'s visits to, 384-393, 449-453 Evarts, William Mrmy of the West, 49; attitude of the Blair family toward, 49; purchases arms in Europe, 50; vacillation, 50; takes the field in central Missouri, 51; dogmatic orders wo kinds of strategy, 336, 337; territorial strategy, 358, 359; application of European rules in America, 359 Military study, 2:35 Military system, 345, 346 lf, 448; correspondence with Sherman as to the retirement bill, 449; sojourn in Europe (1881-82), 449-453; offered command of the Division of the Pacific, 450; promisses French autumn maneuvers, 451-453; speech at Limoges, 452, 453; returns from Europe, 453; reassigned to command of the Division of the Pacific, 453; headquarters a his statesmanship, 393; adherence to the Monroe Doctrine, 393; recalls S. from Europe, 393; relations with S. in the matter of Grant and Stanton, 478 Shelby, Bri